[TNG] Emergence

[TNG] Season 7, Episode 23: Emergence

Rating: 2

The Enterprise becoming sentient is a solid starting point for a story, and even the idea of the holodeck acting as a kind of subconscious for the emerging mind of the Enterprise is really promising, but its all filtered through a pretty by-the-book procedural structure. The “weird” stuff isn’t strange enough to sufficiently spice up the otherwise standard approach. If the plot flowed naturally from the premise this coulda been a real cool one.

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Notes:

Picard and Data are goofin around in a Shakespeare holodeck but then a train shows up, which is totally un-shakespearian.
The Enterprise is actin’ up – not following orders, sassing the crew, etc
This might be one of those episodes where the writers were scrounging around the paramount lot and thinking up a story based on costumes they found.
Geordi finds a screensaver.
More random stuff
Some bricks fall on Deanna!
Data stops the train and then its like the end.

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